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organicAnt · 3488 days ago · link · · parent · post: I don't understand why you have to pay to live on a planet you were born on.
I'm not sure that the kind of unhappiness of the past, when we struggled for basic needs, can be compared with today's unhappiness with the modern consumerist lifestyle which is long past the state of survival. What would you attribute our shared despair to? A pre-deterministic human "nature"? What would you suggest that people who are unhappy do to help in our struggle?I mean people mistake modernity as the cause of unhappiness, and if you pay attention to history, it's easy to see that unhappiness predates modernity by millenia.
Therefore, modernity (or capitalism) is not the primary cause of our shared despair.
There's a lot one can get out of living, and complaining isn't a great help in our struggle.